$ 6 'BEGIN my $x = 42; my @a is default($x); say @a[1]' 42 It’s all a matter of needing a compile time value.
$ 6 'constant $x = 42; my @a is default($x); say @a[1]' 42 Is another way of doing this. I’m not sure how we can actually fix the reported case, without breaking the above cases. If we really want a more flexible default value, then maybe we should allow a Callable as a default value. And call that whenever we need to revert to the default value? > On 09 Aug 2016, at 23:53, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev (via RT) > <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > > # New Ticket Created by Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev > # Please include the string: [perl #128879] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128879 > > > > Code: > my $x = 42; > my @a is default($x); > say @a[1] > > Result: > (Any) > > > It is doc-ed correctly, so one might argue that the user should've known > better. But it is very LTA, and if there is a way to warn the user (or why > warn, let's make it a compile-time error?) then we should definitely do it.
